• Trolley Dolly - Series No.1: 197302 - Close Detail View, a handmade rainbow coloured rag doll stands beside a mini shopping trolley filled with ribbons, beads, fabric, and found objects. Set on grass against a vivid urban graffiti wall, the image explores homelessness, survival, and innocence.
  • Trolley Dolly - Series No.1: 197302 - Room View, a handmade rainbow coloured rag doll stands beside a mini shopping trolley filled with ribbons, beads, fabric, and found objects. Set on grass against a vivid urban graffiti wall, the image explores homelessness, survival, and innocence.
  • Trolley Dolly - Series No.1: 197302 - 74x104cm, a handmade rainbow coloured rag doll stands beside a mini shopping trolley filled with ribbons, beads, fabric, and found objects. Set on grass against a vivid urban graffiti wall, the image explores homelessness, survival, and innocence.
  • Trolley Dolly - Series No.1: 197302 - 60x90cm, a handmade rainbow coloured rag doll stands beside a mini shopping trolley filled with ribbons, beads, fabric, and found objects. Set on grass against a vivid urban graffiti wall, the image explores homelessness, survival, and innocence.
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Trolley Dolly - Series No.1 - 60x90cm Vertical (#197302)

Trolley Dolly - Series No.1 - 60x90cm Vertical (#197302)

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Trolley Dolly - Series No.1: 197302, vivid, defiant, and full of emotional resonance, this fine art photograph from Raymond Mather’s Trolley Dolly series features a handcrafted rag doll dressed in rainbow colours, standing tall beside a miniature shopping trolley filled with colourful scraps, beads, plastic pieces, and repurposed fabric. Her striped limbs and confident stance evoke strength, while the trolley of “life contents” serves as both prop and metaphor for the burdens carried by many, especially women and children experiencing homelessness.

Set against an urban wall awash with graffiti blues and motion, the work juxtaposes playful innocence with harsh truth. The doll becomes an avatar for overlooked lives: bright, brave, resourceful, and rarely seen. This image, rich with texture and tone, speaks volumes without words, inviting empathy and reflection through scale, colour, and symbolism.

Printed on museum-grade archival cotton rag paper using archival pigment inks. Each work is individually signed and accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity.

Production and Provenance

Original image captured: 2019, Murwillumbah NSW
Limited edition of 50
Produced and fulfilled in Australia


Series Origin and Exhibition History

Trolley Dolly, Series No.1 was developed in response to The Other Portrait Exhibition at Proudfoots Loading Dock Gallery, Murwillumbah, 2019. The works were created specifically for this community devised exhibition following an invitation from the curators, Dev Lengjel and Chelle Wallace.


Related Series

This artwork forms part of Trolley Dolly Series No.1. Related works from this collection may be viewed in Trolley Dolly Series No.2.

 

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